I love summer!

Why do I love summer? Because the moment I see those first lettuce sprigs come up, that first green tomato...I know I will have happy times for the next 5 months. The problem?

I don't know what the #&@(& I'm doing! Last year my 5 tomato plants gave me about 10 tomatoes. My 6 egg plants - 3 eggplants? Maybe 2 butternut squash, you get the idea.

This is the year that I will have the most awesome garden in town!!! Damn, my parent's tomato plants are already twice as big as mine. They use miracle gro, I use organic fertilizer. I put in new soil with steer manure, I kiss my plants every night before bed, what do they want from me!!! I'd like to say it was my first garden, it wasn't.

Everyone I know has a better garden than I do! But this is the year...

I planted tomatoes, cucumber, eggplant, basil, lettuce, carrots, peas, bell pepper, watermelon, cantelope, yellow squash, zucchini, raspberry, blackberry, and hot banana peppers. All this in about 2, 20x4' spaces.

Next year I want an urban chicken coop. They are all the rage! Fresh eggs! My husband said he is putting his foot down on that one. He is so funny.

I'm just kidding about kissing my plants, but I do look at them lovingly...